A Mobile Inspecting Tool for Wireless SensorNetworks

The number of wireless sensor networks is constantly increasing. In the deployment phase of the WSNs projects it is common for failures to appear. These can be caused by software or hardware faults or by environmental factors. In order to find the source of these problems, the WSN needs to be inspected. Since the deployments of WSN are often...

Distributed Kalman filtering using Broadcast Gossip

For many processes it is required to have a reliable view of an environment of interest. One way to achieve this is by performing a distributed Kalman filter. In this thesis, three distribution methods from different research backgrounds are implemented and evaluated using multiple metrics for use in a Gossip based wireless sensor network:...

Interactive Design Studio: A spatial-computing framework fro non-IT specialists

In recent years, application domains outside information technology such as architecture have shown an increasing interest in the capabilities of networked systems such as localized computation, reduced power-consumption, and distributed interaction. These capabilities incline the design of interactive environments towards the IT-domain. In...

An Embedded Spatial Computing Platform for Interactive Environments

The design of interactive environments has taken a leap in recent years. It has encountered issues similar to those faced before in distributed system: scalability, robustness, and complexity. We present an Embedded Spatial Computing platform for Interactive Environments. It makes use of research from the field of Computer Science and Embedded...

GDE: A Distributed Gradient-Based Algorithm for Distance Estimation in Large-Scale Networks

Today, wireless networks are connecting more and more devices around us. The scale of these systems demands for novel techniques to maintain availability for various services such as routing, localization, context detection, etc. Distance estimation is one of their most important building blocks. The majority of current algorithms presume...

A Framework for Cooperative 3D Mapping of Unstructured Environments

Cooperative nature in robots is a much sought after feature. Weakness of individual entities in the system could be over come by cooperation, which also brings in reliability and speed. Application of Computer Vision in robotics has brought in many new path breaking techniques, especially into aerial robotics. It has also managed to upstage the...

Feasibility Study and Design for Wireless Sensor Networks in a Space Environment

Wireless sensor networks is a technology that has been used in a vast number of applications and environments with successful results in the past. Therefore increasing nowadays the number of users of this type of devices and their new applications. In this thesis we worked hand-in-hand with the ISIS B.V. Company to provide a proper WSN design to...